The sharing book.

How time flies… It seem yesterday when we started this subject but well we have to quip in mind that all the things we have learn we will put into practice by using the materials and websites we have created and we have visited during this term. For my last post I would like to […]

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Workshop review

Working to create the Aladdin workshop helped me understand the Arabic culture a little more. I realized how little I knew about this culture and how it has helped me develop a better understanding for Middle Eastern history and traditions. Teachers should know or at least have an idea of the main aspects of their […]

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The cave of wonders workshop!

Hi wonders! During the previous weeks the class has been working on a specific feature related to Aladdin’s film. We had to create a workshop for 9 years old students from Daoiz y Velarde School (Alcalá de Henares). Our group chose the Cave of Wonders scene when Aladdin enters to the cave of wonders and […]

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Welcome to Arabia!

Last Tuesday we had a special visit: a group of 4th year students of a school of Alcalá de Henares came to the university or better said, to Arabia and they spent time with the characters of Aladdin’s movie. We were divided into six groups around the corridors of the principal building. Each group was […]

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Don’t forget the enthusiasm!!

Hi everyone!! Welcome again. For this post I am going to talk about the last medium gorup class in which we were working with “Special poems”. First of all, I want to say that this activity was very useful for me thinking in the future, and I am sure that i will use it. It […]

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GQ code and producing poetry

Welcome again! Today I want to talk about today’s half group class. During the first hour, we have been working with the poetry videos our classmates did. We have been creating activities we could do with those videos. After that, we generated a GQ code with the video and the activity related to it, because […]

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The book to create your own book

Thinking about the topic I will write for this post, one idea came to my mind: the “choose-your-own-story” books. The real name of this kind of books are “choose-your-own-adventure” and it was published between 1979 and 1998 by Bantam Books (now is part of Random House publisher house) selling more than 250 million of books […]

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The power of Shape Poetry

Hello Explorers! This week, my middle group had a great Poetry Workshop, and one of the activities that Raquel proposed us, had to do with the creation of Shape Poetry. In this case, we had to find inspiration using a model that she provided, and there where up to six different types of shape poetry […]

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be, or not to be, that’s the question

Hello one more time! We are arriving on our lasts posts and they are a little bit more difficult because we have to try to show what we are learning during these weeks. In this post I want to talk about the last seminar, trying not to reveal a lot of information because there are […]

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